Identify the two highest priority problems for the patient and develop those problems into nursing diagnoses.

Clinical Reasoning Cycle

For your submission of AT2, you are to submit one of the templates below (Clive Jenkins or Colin Withers) which you will find under the rubric. The answer boxes will expand to accommodate any text entered. Make sure that your marker can easily identify the rationale and evaluation of care for particular actions. Use a numbering system to make it easier to follow.

Use the case scenario of your choice, from the intensive. You will explore all eight (8) stages of the clinical reasoning cycle and support your discussion with the relevant codes, standards and evidence-informed sources. On the template you are given rough estimates of word count in each section. It is just a guide but will indicate to you which areas to spend more time on.

For example, “relate and infer” is the section where you provide an explanation for the data you have obtained, by discussing the physiological and pathophysiological processes and mechanisms. This careful discussion will inform the diagnoses you develop and all your subsequent decisions about care for the patient.

You are to identify the two highest priority problems for the patient and develop those problems into nursing diagnoses (Levett-Jones, T. 2018. Diagnosing. In A. Berman et al. Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing. 4th ed. Pearson: Melb. pp221 – 229. eBook in UTas Library).

“Develop, articulate and prioritise nursing diagnoses” has a suggested word count of 800. Most of this should be under “rationale” where you are expected to substantiate the rationale of the actions you’ve written with evidence-based research. The reflection is expected to be robust including writing against the relevant RN Standards for Practice (NMBA, 2016)